Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1909 — GREELY TELLS OF RETREAT [ARTICLE]

GREELY TELLS OF RETREAT

Explains Why He Abandoned Stores That Peary Party Found. North Conway, N. H., Sept. 2i.-r General A. W. Greely, U. S. A., (retired), talked briefly regarding the discovery by Commander Robert E. Peary’s party of some of the stores of the Greely expedition in 1883. He Baid: “Those stores were left by me in 1883 when retreating southward. In 1898, when Peary went north during the winter from his ship then wintering at Cape Durville, he was badly frozen and was obliged to seek shelter at my old quarters in Discovery bay. He then lost eight toes and was saved from death by the stores then found by him in good condition. “There was left at Conger all the books, clothing and other personal belongings of twenty-five men. Almost anything might be found, as we took with ufl only our scientific records, diaries and the clothing which we wore, with ten pounds of selected personal property for each man.”